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Searches for supersymmetric top quarks at the LHC have been making great progress in pushing sensitivity out to higher mass, but are famously plagued by gaps in coverage around lower-mass regions where the decay phase space is closing off. Within the common stop-NLSP/neutralino-LSP simplified model, the line in the mass plane where there is just enough phase space to produce an on-shell top quark remains almost completely unconstrained. Here, we show that is possible to define searches capable of probing a large patch of this difficult region, with S/B ∼ 1 and significances often well beyond 5σ. The basic strategy is to leverage the large energy gain of LHC Run 2, leading to a sizable population of stop pair events recoiling against a hard jet. The recoil not only re-establishes a signature, but also leads to a distinctive anti-correlation between the and the recoil jet transverse vectors when the stops decay all-hadronically. Accounting for jet combinatorics, backgrounds, and imperfections in measurements, we estimate that Run 2 will already start to close the gap in exclusion sensitivity with the first few 10s of fb−1. By 300 fb−1, exclusion sensitivity may extend from stop masses of 550 GeV on the high side down to below 200 GeV on the low side, approaching the “stealth” point at \( {m}_{\overline{t}}={m}_t \) and potentially overlapping with limits from \( t\overline{t} \) cross section and spin correlation measurements.
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Macaluso, S., Park, M., Shih, D. et al. Revealing compressed stops using high-momentum recoils. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 151 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2016)151
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